Jan 21
Big Brother Advancing on Several Fronts
The headline was written to be as shocking as possible to the reader: "Prisoners to be chipped like dogs". This story ran in the British paper, The Independent, and several people sent me the link.
According to the article, government ministers are planning to implant "machine-readable" microchips under the skin of thousands of offenders. It’s part of an expansion of the electronic tagging scheme that would create more space in British jails.
Instead of being contained in bracelets worn around the ankle, the tiny chips would be surgically inserted under the skin of offenders in the community, to help enforce home curfews. The radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, as long as two grains of rice, are able to carry scannable personal information about individuals, including their identities, address and offending record. (Brian Brady, The Independent, Jan. 13, 2008).
Two days after this story, the Guardian Unlimited ran a story entitled, "Americans seek international database to carry iris palm and finger print."
The FBI wants to establish an international database to hunt for major criminals and terrorists. The program, called "Server in the Sky," would take cooperation between the police forces way beyond the current faxing of fingerprints across the Atlantic. Allies in the "War Against Terror"--the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand--have formed a working group, the International Information Consortium, to plan their strategy.
Biometric measurements--irises or palm prints as well as fingerprints and other personal information--are likely to be exchanged across the network. One section will feature the world's most wanted suspects. The database could hold details of millions of criminals and suspects.
Here in the U.S., REAL ID has been in the news. The REAL ID Act of 2005 requires people entering federal buildings, boarding airplanes, or opening bank accounts to present identification that has met certain security and authentication standards. The federal government has been pushing states to comply with this act.
None of these news stories has generated any major concern by the public. The story about of chipping prisoners was met with a yawn. Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the public has progressively become more apathetic about any measures that encroach upon their civil liberties.
I did find one Big Brother idea that got shot down. The California Energy Commission had proposed a mandate for utilities to control the temperature of new homes and commercial buildings in emergencies with a radio-controlled thermostat. When there was a public outcry, the Commission pulled the plan. It is still rather unnerving that a utility board would try to implement such a crazy rule.
Most of these proposed security measures stem from the 911 terrorist attacks. If we had another attack of equal magnitude, we could quickly find ourselves living in a police state.
Barring any major terror event, I see us continuing on a steady course towards an Orwellian society. Since the Bible predicts that all financial systems will some day come under the control of a single organization, the only hope is to delay or slow the process.
The good news is that Jesus is coming for all believers. We will be gone before we reach the point at which the Antichrist will force everyone to receive his mark implant. There is no guarantee that we will not see hard times. When the rapture occurs, we Christians might find ourselves breathing a heavy sigh of relief for what we just escaped.
"Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man" (Lk. 21:36).
-- Todd
Nephilim and the Modern Days of Noah
“Nephilim” is a term that has prompted numerous people to e-mail, their curiosity piqued. I have touched on matters surrounding the strange term in "Nearing Midnight" commentaries. Others such as Patrick Heron, as well as I, have presented longer articles on the nephilim and corollary topics in the "Newest Articles" section of the Rapture Ready website. My recent novel series, “Second Coming Chronicles,” “The Rapture Dialogues,” and the just-released “The Nephilim Imperatives” deal in a fictional way with the topics involved with the nephilim, but from a solid, biblical perspective.
I’ve chosen one e-mail that particularly gripped my interest and prompted me to choose this subject for this "Nearing Midnight" piece. Here is an excerpt from the note, which was addressed not only to me, but to several whom the e-mailer apparently considers somewhat knowledgeable in Bible prophecy.
“…First, I've always wondered why God destroyed everything on earth, except Noah, his family, and the pairs of animals. It just seems strange God would 'lose His temper' and destroy everything, and then promised He would never flood the earth again. Especially, [since] in my opinion, humanity is just as bad now as humanity [was] back then. We have pervasive homosexuality and murdering of thousands of innocent babies without blinking an eye, just as starters on moral depravity…
Here [are] a few questions I'd like to ask you Watchmen on the Wall.
1) What is it, with the fascination of the nephilim? Recently, there's a lot of activity on the study of the nephilim.
2) I thought angels were non-sexual beings. I wasn't aware they could procreate with each other, let alone with women. Could you enlighten me about this?
3) Finally, what does all this have to do with the end times? I'm not aware of any giants roaming earth at the present time, as if demon/human breeding going on…”
To begin answering, I first want to point again to the words of the Lord Jesus, in which He foretold things to come. I’m convinced He was prophesying things that would take place not only during the tribulation, but in our present time as well–the time just before He calls the Church to be with him (John 14:1-3; 1 Cor. 15:51-55; 1 Thes. 4:13-18; Rev. 3:10; Rev. 4:1):
“And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man” (Lk. 17:26).
The “days of Noah” encompass a quite large time line, with many things happening. Two primary things taking place during Noah’s day–pertaining to our e-mailer’s inquiry--were:
1) The bene elohim (sons of God) looked upon the flesh-and-blood daughters of men, and came to earth to have sexual relations with them. The offspring of these unions are the “nephilim.” For the sake of space limitations, I suggest you read the account in Genesis, Chapter 6.
2) The same passages tell us that violence filled the whole earth at the time these nephilim roamed the earth. These beings were part supernatural, part human. They were called by Scripture “giants”. They performed spectacular feats in their day, the Genesis account tells us. These are the beings, it is believed, that inspired the legends of Greek, Roman, Norse, and other mythologies, including Zeus, Apollo, Hercules, Prometheus, Thor, etc.–all the gods and demigods that traversed the pages of literature some of us read about in our high school and college days.
One argument that some give who believe the “sons of God” were really the sons of Seth, the son of Adam, say these couldn’t be the fallen angels because of the following Scripture:
“For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven” (Matt. 22:30).
The "they’re-no-angels" camp says angels are obviously sexless, therefore do not and cannot procreate. But, that’s not what the Scripture says. God’s Word indicates the angels neither marry, nor are married in Heaven. The key words are “in Heaven.” These fallen “sons of God” left their first estate–Heaven--the book of Jude says. They pursued “strange flesh,” i.e., an order other than their own. The term bene elohim in almost every case in the use of the Hebrew term, means the created order called “angels,” not the procreated order of being called “man.”
We’ve already addressed the e-mailer’s second question about angels not procreating. We go now back to the first question asking why there is presently such emphasis on the things called “nephilim”.
In my own case of writing on the topic, I can only say that I sense an urging that I believe is from God, the Holy Spirit, to address this topic that has until now been for the most part left out of the dialogue in eschatology (the study of end things). I believe others are getting the same prompting by the Lord to make this whole UFO thing a part of the mix of things to come. Jesus’ profound foretelling in Luke 17 must be taken seriously. He is, after all, the Creator of all things who knows all things.
The proliferation of sightings, reports of abductions, visitations, and many other anomalous things shows, I believe, along with all other signals, just where this generation must stand on God’s prophetic time line. We, indeed, seem to be in the time Jesus termed “as in the days of Noah”. The Lord always forewarns any generation that is about to endure His judgment. This generation is no exception. Therefore, He wants us to know what these strange lights in the sky really mean in our time.
STEPHENVILLE, Texas (AP) -- In this farming community where nightfall usually brings clear, starry skies, residents are abuzz over reported sightings of
what many believe is a UFO.
Ricky Sorrells says he saw a flat, metallic object hovering about 300 feet over a pasture behind his Texas home.
Several dozen people -- including a pilot, county constable and business owners -- say they have seen a large silent object with bright lights flying low and fast. Some reported seeing fighter jets chasing it.
"People wonder what in the world it is because this is the Bible Belt, and everyone is afraid it's the end of times," said Steve Allen, a freight company owner and pilot who said the object he saw last week was a mile long and half a mile wide. ‘It was positively, absolutely nothing from these parts."
To get what I believe to be electrifying insight and discernment into exactly what the return of the nephilim could mean to mankind, from a biblical world view, I recommend in the strongest terms that you read:
NEPHILIM STARGATES: The Year 2012 and the Return of the Watchers by Tom Horn.
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--Terry
